On Saturday, I met Yuhki and his friend, Shinji in Shibuya for some drinks. Yuhki came out to Tokyo because of Shinji's ゼミ, which is like a research thing. We went to the HUB, which is an English style pub. There's always a lot of foreigners there. Calpis Surfer and Sex on the Beach were really good. Yuhki and Shinji decided to order this drink that had the most number of hearts next to it...which was a very bad idea. It turns out, it was the strongest drink they had, the hearts weren't for popularity. It had an absinthe base and it was disgusting!!! I don't know how they finished it. It's gross just thinking about it. Then I got a motivational speech from Yuhki (with Shinji's interjections here and there) about how I should try to speak more Japanese, to not take the easy way out and use English, and how it's okay to make mistakes. It was actually kind of amazing Yuhki could still say such inspirational stuff after drinking. Haha. He's a good friend so I was glad we could hang out. I felt like garbage going home on the subway, but I made it back safely and didn't feel bad in the morning.
That was a relief because I went to Yohan Waseda Christ Church on Friday morning. Min Jeong met me at the station and I met up with Rie at the church. Everyone there was really nice. It was a little long and hard to understand, but the church is actually pretty music oriented, so there's a lot of music and singing. Afterwards, I was given some cds (gospel and a recording of some of the Christmas Concert) and a copy of the New Testament in Japanese. XD We ate lunch together and I met a few more people. Since Rie and Min Jeong were doing preparation for the other service, Mi Yeon walked me back to the station. Overall, it was a fun experience. I'll probably go with them on their one day trip to onsen on the 3rd. ^^
Nobuko ended up skipping her training for Starbucks and met me in Ikebukuro along with her friend. We went to eat and drink at a little restaurant. I hadn't seen Nobuko in a while, so it was nice to see her. And of course, we went to karaoke after that. Her friend left early, but we stayed there for about 3 hours total. It turns out the only songs we can sing together are old Hamasaki Ayumi songs because we have different tastes in music. XD Anyway...it was great fun. =D
The only downer was that I slept in too long and woke up at 8am, which means I couldn't make it to my Japanese class without being ridiculously late. So I skipped that and showed up for Korean Art and Japanese Literature. We didn't actually have lecture for Korean Art. We all went up to our professor's office and she threw a little mochi party with different kinds of Korean sweets. Korean mochi is really good. ^^ It was interesting, since our class is so small. Most people showed up so we just ate and talked and stuff. Very interesting. Only a few more days to pull through...
6 days until Vietnam!
